Projects

The institute conceives and realizes research projects, develops and realizes curricula and modules for the promotion of health in organizations and businesses. Furthermore the institute supports the development and establishment of degree programs for the promotion of health at universities. The institutes' research practice is application-oriented and is backed by a network of partners from the fields of medicine, education, social work and economy.

A qualification for emergency services: Developing a module to train the perception and to contribute to health promotion

A cooperation project with the Björn Steiger Foundation

The "International Institute for Subjective Experience and Research (ISER)" in connection with the initiative "baby-ambulance" by the Björn Steiger Foundation provide a module to increase the perrception for doctors and nurses of the neonatal and pediatric intensive care.
The module is intended as part of emergency care contact between workers and newborns, the helpers to each other and to the surrounding environment, like the contact between the parents and the newborn. Moreover, it is a support for doctors and nursing staff for a health-promoting behaviour in extreme situations.

Key aspects of the module are:
Individual treatments of doctors and nurses with Ergosoma in order to stimulate the physical self-regulation mechanisms of the helpers and their self-perception. Workshops to promote empathic perception and action skills through exercises, as well as dialogic and interactive forms in the work with different aesthetic media.
The implementation of the module is accompanied by a scientific study to back up the benefits and sustainability of the project.

Funded by

The module was presented in Stuttgart at the celebration of the first baby-emergency ambulance in a panel discussion:

Research Project: Development of a model for social participation of people with dementia in museums

ISER has developed a model for the social participation of people with dementia in the museum in cooperation with the Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg/ Germany. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
The project explores the specific potential of the art reception at the Museum for people with dementia. This concerns the question how the art museum can contribute to cultural participation and social communication of people with dementia by individual and collective experiences that follow their specific potentials. The aim of the project is to obtain the participation of old diseased people in social life and to improve their quality of life, empowerment and social inclusion, in order to avoid isolation and loneliness.
First decisive factors will be explored in experience-based teaching practice and their conditions in order to develop a model for social participation for people with dementia in the museum. The following topics will be: Exploring the perception skills of the elderly, the aesthetic form of artistic works, their production and presentation in a museum space, as well as educational opportunities for art education. In a further step, the developed mediation and participatory model will be tested in other art museums in Germany.

The study period was divided into four phases:

Preprocessing phase
Development of the model for social participation of people with dementia in the museum space
Evaluation of the model
Creating the Final Report

Funded by the BMBF (Social innovation for quality of life in an aging society)

Foto: LehmbruckMuseum/ Michael Hagedorn

Preventing Drug Trafficking and Abuse in Prisons in Romania

A Project by the National Anti-Drug Agency and Pompidou Group, Council of Europe

Improving counselling skills and introducing solution-focused art
therapy was the purpose of the workshop for psychologist and social
workers working with the rehabilitation of drug dependent or recovering
detainees. Over 20 Romanian and Moldovan participated in this event
which took place in Poiana Brasov in Romania from 25 to 27 September
2012. The event was organised by the Pompidou Group in collaboration
with the Romanian National Anti-Drug Agency and the National Prison
Administration. The workshop was led by a psycho-analyst and an art
therapy professor who illustrated theoretical approaches with practical
therapeutic assignments. The participants discovered the art producing
process as a powerful method for communicating suppressed emotions and
solving drug-related problems. A result of the workshop was the
development of a tool for the implementation of participatory drug
prevention projects in prisons.
A following poster competition in Romanian prisons led to more than 150
works of art that were created by prisoners. The best results were
selected and 28 February exhibited at an international conference in
Bucharest.